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Egypt Fate of student union elections unknown as conflict widens between students and state | Mada Masr
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The Higher Education Ministry raised controversy last week when it didn’t approve the final results of student union elections in Egypt’s public universities, in which candidates associated with the protest movement garnered a major win.

After an electoral battle with the largely pro-government Voice of Egypt’s Students coalition, the president of Cairo University student union, Abdallah Anwar, and his counterpart in Tanta University, Amr al-Helw, both won the leadership of Egypt’s biggest student body as president and vice president. Both Anwar and Helw identify themselves as supporters of the January 25 revolution, and as proponents of academic and campus freedoms.

The union is composed of the elected presidents and vice presidents from student unions in public universities, their counterparts at Al-Azhar University, and one representative of private universities.

Outraged by the ministry’s reluctance to approve the results and declare them, the student community launched a hashtag on social media, “I support Egypt’s Student Union.”

How Revolutions Fail
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A group of Egyptians who call themselves as ’Anti-Coup demonstrators’ stage a demonstration demanding to release of their arrested friends, at Cairo University in Giza, #Egypt on February 18, 2015. Anadolu Agency/Belal Wagdy A group of Egyptians who call themselves as ’Anti-Coup demonstrators’ stage a demonstration demanding to release of their arrested friends, at Cairo University in Giza, Egypt on February 18, 2015. Anadolu Agency/Belal Wagdy

The conservative right has produced some of the best scholars on the birth of revolutions, exemplified by #Alexis_de_Tocqueville and his 1856 book “The Old Regime and the Revolution”.

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Egypt’s universities issue more security regulations ahead of new semester | Mada Masr

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University administrations are preemptively tightening their grip on student communities with an onslaught of new security measures as they prepare for the launch of the new academic year on October 11.

Cairo University President Gaber Nasser has instructed professors to steer clear of any political or partisan activities on campus, the privately owned ONA news agency reported on Thursday.

#Cairo student shot dead in clashes
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A student was shot dead on Monday during clashes between supporters of #Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Mursi and police in Cairo University, security officials said. Clashes erupted when student supporters of Mursi protests in the university campus, officials said, adding that police fired tear gas from outside the campus and arrested 13 demonstrators. Clashes were also reported in the University of Zagazig, north of Cairo, where three students were wounded and three others were arrested. read more

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#Egypt : #Free_Egyptian_Army being formed in #Libya
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An Egyptian woman runs for cover as tear gas is fired by Egyptian riot police during clashes with students, supporters of the #Muslim_Brotherhood and ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, clash following a demonstration outside Cairo University, on April 9, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Mahmoud Khaled) An Egyptian woman runs for cover as tear gas is fired by Egyptian riot police during clashes with students, supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, clash following a demonstration outside Cairo University, on April 9, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Mahmoud Khaled)

Cairo: Egyptian security forces continue to chase armed groups active in the country. The confrontation does not seem it will come to end (...)

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Blasts near #Cairo university kill police general
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Updated 1:37 pm: An Egyptian police general was killed and an assistant interior minister wounded in twin bombings targeting security posts near Cairo University on Wednesday, police said. The attack was the latest by militants targeting security forces following Islamist president Mohammed Mursi’s overthrow in July. The rudimentary bombs also wounded five policemen, the interior ministry said, identifying the slain officer as Brigadier General Tarek al-Mergawi. A police general at the scene told AFP that the bombs were concealed in a tree between two small police posts. read more

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Egyptian #police kill pro-Mursi student protester
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Updated 7:10 pm: One person was killed and 14 wounded Wednesday when police and student supporters of #Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Mursi clashed at #Cairo University, the health ministry said. Riot police fired volleys of tear gas from the university’s main gate at students who were demonstrating against Monday’s sentencing of 529 Mursi supporters to death in the biggest such act in the country’s modern judicial history, an AFP correspondent reported. read more

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#Egypt sentences 529 Brotherhood supporters to death
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Riot police are seen outside the grounds of Cairo University as Egyptian students, supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed #mursi, demonstrate inside the grounds and on the streets leading to their campus in the capital Cairo, on March 19, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mohammed al-Shahed) Riot police are seen outside the grounds of Cairo University as Egyptian students, supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi, demonstrate inside the grounds and on the streets leading to their campus in the capital Cairo, on March 19, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mohammed al-Shahed)

A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohammed Mursi to death after a mass trial, judicial sources said. (...)

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Cairo university student sexually harassed by mob on campus - Ahram Online

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Une étudiante agressée sexuellement à l’université du Caire. L’établissement nie puis pointe sa tenue vestimentaire

Cairo university student sexually harassed by mob on campus
University head says incident is first ever on campus, a claim refuted by anti-harassment campaigners, who say dozens of women have been harassed at Cairo University

Egyptian police fire tear gas at pro-Mursi students
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Police fired tear gas at university students in Cairo on Sunday as they demonstrated in support of ousted president Mohammed #mursi, two days ahead of a referendum on a new constitution. Clashes between police and the protesters erupted in front of Cairo University, #al-Azhar University and Ain Shams University, security officials said, adding that 19 students, including four women, were arrested. Sunday’s clashes came as #Egypt's military-installed authorities prepare for a referendum on a new constitution, which is due to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. read more

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#Egypt bans #Protests at universities
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Cairo University’s students backing ousted president Mohammed Mursi shout slogans during a demonstration against July’s military “coup,” in Tahrir square on December 1, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt.(Photo: AFP - Mohammed el-Shahed) Cairo University’s students backing ousted president Mohammed Mursi shout slogans during a demonstration against July’s military “coup,” in Tahrir square on December 1, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt.(Photo: AFP - Mohammed el-Shahed)

An Egyptian court banned on Monday student protests inside all university campuses without a prior notification to the authorities as demonstrations by pro-Muslim Brotherhood students entered it’s third consecutive day. Several universities have been witnessing recurring protests (...)

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Students torch #Cairo university, one killed
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A man stands outside a faculty building at Cairo’s #al-azhar_university after student supporters of the #Muslim_Brotherhood stormed it on December 28, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Kamel)

Egyptian police shot a student dead Saturday at Cairo’s Al-Azhar university after Islamist students set fire to their university, health ministry officials said. The 19-year-old student was killed as police entered the campus to confront protesters who torched the commerce faculty building, the officials said. The students entered the building during an exam and set it alight before police and security forces members burst in and fired tear gas and apparently live ammunition. read (...)

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Politics Delay #Cairo-Khartoum Highway
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Cairo University’s students backing ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi flash the four-finger sign during a demonstration against July’s military “coup,” in Tahrir square on December 1, 2013 in Cairo, #Egypt (Photo: AFP - Mahmoud Khaled). Cairo University’s students backing ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi flash the four-finger sign during a demonstration against July’s military “coup,” in Tahrir square on December 1, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt (Photo: AFP - Mahmoud Khaled).

Cairo – The opening of the overland road connecting Cairo and #Khartoum has been suspended, awaiting further action by both countries’ political leadership. The opening has been delayed for over a year due to security conditions and political (...)

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#Egypt releases secular activist, extends detention of another
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An Egyptian student smashes a #police vehicle during a demonstration on December 1, 2013 in support of a comrade engineering student at #Cairo University killed the previous week in clashes with Egytian security forces during an Islamist demonstration. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Kamel) An Egyptian student smashes a police vehicle during a demonstration on December 1, 2013 in support of a comrade engineering student at Cairo University killed the previous week in clashes with Egytian security forces during an Islamist demonstration. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Kamel)

Egyptian authorities on Sunday freed a prominent secular activist but extended the detention of another after the two were arrested for holding unauthorized demonstrations, (...)

#Alaa_Abdel_Fattah #Tahrir_square #tear_gas #Top_News

#Egypt warns against protests after arrest of leading activist
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University students, relatives and friends of Mohammed Reda Mohammed Abdo, a second-year engineering student killed during an Islamist demonstration at Cairo University the previous day, shout religious slogans as they carry his coffin during his funeral, on November 29, 2013 in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo: AFP - Gianluigi Guercia)

Egypt’s army-installed authorities threatened decisive action Friday against anyone defying a new ban on unauthorized gatherings on the traditional day of protest, hammering home its message by the beating and arrest of a leading activist. The Muslim Brotherhood vowed to go ahead regardless with the weekly protests it has organized after noon prayers ever since Islamist president Mohammed Mursi was overthrown in a July 3 military coup. (...)

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Egyptian protester killed, as police officers acquitted in torture trial
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One protester was killed in clashes between supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi and security forces at Cairo University on Thursday, medical sources said. Meanwhile, a court acquitted on Thursday three police officers on charges of torturing five Islamist militants who were in their custody during the rule of former president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said. The officers were accused of giving electric shocks to the militants, depriving them of food and beating them during their interrogations. read more

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Independent candidate becomes head of Cairo University student union

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Independent candidates Hesham Ashraf and Mustafa Saad on Monday won the seats of head and deputy head respectively of Cairo University’s student union.